discovered while searching for raptor images:
fox raptor by Culpeo-Fox on deviantart
( https://www.deviantart.com/culpeo-fox/art/Fox-Raptor-93147982 )
This is actually extremely neat, the Cincinnati Museum of Art has made their CAM Collection of pieces available to Animal Crossing: New Horizon players via QR codes.
The QR code method is a bit tedeus if you want the whole collection and requires a smart phone and Nintendo Online app, but it's there.
https://cincinnatiartmuseum.org/about/blog/animal-crossing-and-cam/
Hey you know what we should make a thing for 2020? Giving each other heartfelt blessings.
"Dream of wonders" has been a pretty common bedtime one in my circles.
A fox I know will sometimes wish me hunter's luck in my pursuits.
I just told a partner "walk in lightness and song."
Feels real good to be on either end of that kind of thing.
shitpost, ai, stylegan2, mild body horror, birdsite link
Artist: <posts a bunch of AI generated face animations that fall deep into the uncanny valley>
cyriak: "haha thats wonderful"
https://twitter.com/cyriakharris/status/1243645472125878274?s=20
As was recently suggested to me, if you're in the US (or probably other countries!) and want more international covid news than you're getting here as the news media turns inward, check out Al Jazeera.
okay so you might have heard that a lot of games on itch.io are generously being put on sale or going completely free to download/claim to help keep people busy during self-isolation. to make things a bit easier for poor folks like me who cant really afford to buy video games, i've made an (almost) complete list of the games that are completely free https://itch.io/c/759545/self-isolation-on-a-budget
COVID-19: Government Financial Assistance for Washington Residents
The Washington State Department of Financial Institutions has developed a list of financial resources for Washington residents impacted by the Coronavirus, which will be updated as more resources come online.
https://dfi.wa.gov/coronavirus-financial-resources
Present list includes:
• Unemployment Help
• Credit Card payment advice
• Rent/mortgage payment advice
• Student Loan Deferment
• Emergency Loan advice
• Utilities
• Insurance
• Education resources
covid-adjacent, uspol, longish
after this is all over, be sure to remind people, as often as they'll allow you to get away with it, that:
telecoms did not need data caps, had plenty of capacity to donate to low-income folks, and were never in danger of going bankrupt because of the lack of data caps or the additional usage
folks who work on computers all day can do that wherever computers are; most tech offices are merely trophies to show off to other tech offices.
the government wasn't concerned with helping people, it was concerned with helping business. it was people who were helping people and often the government merely got in the way of that.
trillions of dollars was found to allocate as soon as they wanted to; every time anyone asks how anything will be funded it's merely to shut down the conversation.
keep a running list of your favorite facts and get them in front of as many folk as you can, as often as you can, and maybe, just maybe, we can get more folks on board for change
US Pol, Simple action needed, Mass surveillance and encryption,
Congress is using this opportune distraction to try to push for outlawing encryption. Please fill out this simple form through the EFF to prevent this from happening.
https://act.eff.org/action/protect-our-speech-and-security-online-reject-the-graham-blumenthal-bill
There's a whole class of weird US court cases against inanimate objects:
United States v. Approximately 64,695 Pounds of Shark Fins
United States v One Solid Gold Object In The Form Of A Rooster
I decided to see what a neural net would make of them.
https://aiweirdness.com/post/612669075940900864/court-cases-that-sound-like-the-weirdest-fights
Thank you for starting this thread. I've linked to it in my Google Doc listing #covid19 resources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1R9Iz_6kXyVKz0ToOTQ14MzYEoyaFD-MqgfMHYNX4q84
i have been thinking
i have seen other people do this, but i have a lot of followers for a fediverse account so i am going to do it too. i hope you do not mind
if you're a person who is making less money due to the virus going around, pls reply to this post! i have heard that a lot of people are having a hard time with money right now.
if you have money to spare, pls have a snif around in the replies. in tough times like this it's important for us all to help each other 💕 thank mew
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